Novocibirsk – The Vasalery Project (Album Digital/CD/Vinyl – BOREDOMproduct)
French “sound architect” Hervé Isar first released this album in 1997 as a tribute to Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely. In this work, Isar ingeniously translated Vasarely’s vibrant colors into sounds, creating an auditory ode to the artist. Notably, 1997 was also the year Vasarely passed away. The album has since been remastered and polished, and it’s remarkable how these analog sounds, despite their age, continue to feel fresh and innovative. The music is experimental yet accessible, with its slow rhythms and refined, astral tones and bleeps. Above all, this album is an intelligent and sophisticated creation that was far ahead of its time and perhaps resonates even more strongly today. In my view, it’s a masterful piece of work. (Rate:8½).
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About Novocibirsk
Novocibirsk is the project of French musician Hervé Isar, built around a home-studio network of synthesizers and analog sequencers assembled between 1982 and 1993. Its debut album, “Excerpts And Experiments”, was released in 1997 as the first-ever release on the French label BOREDOMproduct, and remained Novocibirsk’s only CD release for more than two decades.
BOREDOMproduct later launched the subdivision productionB to reactivate Novocibirsk, releasing archival material on CD for the first time with “Télévision 1945 (Volume I)” and its follow-up, “Télévision 1945 (Volume II)”. “The Vasarely Project”, recorded live at the Vasarely Foundation in Aix-en-Provence in September 1993 and drawn from Novocibirsk’s cassette archives, followed on productionB/BOREDOMproduct in 2024.
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